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Alaina Bainbridge is a senior studying Political Science, Creative Writing, and Social and Economic Justice. She was born in Durham. After graduating in December, she is planning on travelling around the country rock climbing before applying to MFA programs in poetry.
Natasja Brezenski is a Junior Psychology and Studio Art Major, concentrating primarily in drawing. She is from Durham, NC and spends most of her time doodling in her notebooks while listening to her meticulously crafted Spotify playlists
Megan Busbice is a first year student from Holly Springs, North Carolina. She’s majoring in English with a minor in Hispanic Studies. Megan loves Harry Potter, writing letters, and road trips.
Sarah Clouser is a sophomore double majoring in photojournalism and history. She is from Charlotte, North Carolina where she has lived her whole life. Sarah loves live music, photography, and plays lacrosse in her free time.
Miranda Diaz is a neuroscience and archaeology major from St. Johns, Florida in her second year at UNC. Outside of class, she spends her time researching brain cancer in a Neurology lab, working on tech staff for Carolina Performing Arts, eating at Hibachi, or FaceTiming her four younger siblings. She hopes to become a bioarchaeologist, see the northern lights, and keep writing way too many poems.
Darby Faraci is a sophomore Pre-Nursing major. She grew up in the small coastal town of New Bern, North Carolina. Since she was young she has always had a deep rooted passion for art, whether it be acrylic painting, colored pencil, watercolor, or other medias. Darby does her best to incorporate her art into every part of life, for it is a big part of who she is.
Samuel Gee is a sophomore from Greenville, SC, majoring in English and minoring in creative writing. Abolish and prosecute ICE.
Aisling Henihan is a senior from Wilmington, NC studying art history, geography, and creative writing. She is working towards an honors thesis in poetry and trying not to kill yet another house plant.
Sofia Lesnewski is a first-year English and Comparative Literature major. She has 50
lived in Jersey City, NJ her entire life and is a self-proclaimed “Joisey girl.” Sofia enjoys reading, writing, and tutoring in addition to photography.
Kate Meadows is a sophomore majoring in English. Outside of her studies, she serves as an editorial intern at Algonquin books and blogs for the campus style magazine, Coulture. On weekends, you can find her as a barnacle at Open Eye Cafe. She grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, but has yet to get sick of it.
Kieran Patel is a first-year biochemistry major and creative writing minor. When she isn’t studying, she enjoys spending all of her money on Med Deli and biking out of Chapel Hill. She values poetry for its ability to provide an exploratory space for a story to ricochet around, and she tries to write every day.
Niyanta Patel is a sophomore Neuroscience major and Creative Writing minor from Nashville, TN. Their Med Deli order is sun-dried tomato linguine, eggplant squash stew, and peach salad. They are very sleepy.
Kelsie Qua is a senior English literature major from Hudson, New York. She wrote her first novel at the age of sixteen, and has been trying (and failing) to find a more practical way to spend her free time ever since.
Kayla Rutledge is a junior from Charlotte, NC who loves funny videos of babies, writing, and cheese quesadillas. She is majoring in Political Science and Journalism and minoring in Creative Writing. Everything she creates is inspired by and written for her Creator. “There Lived a Feathered, Flightless Man is her first published fiction piece.”
Erin Scannell is a senior studying media production, comparative literature, and creative writing. She grew up in Asheville, NC and enjoys plaing the banjo. Her favorite writer is Mila Kundera, and she thinks the penguin from Wallace and Gromit’s “The Wrong Trousers” is the most frightening villian of all time.
Hanna Watson is a junior African-American Studies major and Creative Writing minor. A native of Wichita, KS, Hanna got her start as a poet performing Spoken Word, which she continues to do as an expression of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Outside of writing, Hanna loves hiking, playing guitar, and enjoying good coffee and bread.
Kiran Wheeler is a first-year from Charlotte, NC with a double major in English and Business and a minor in Creative Writing. When she’s not reading or writing, she enjoys spending all of her money on shoes and Chick-fil-A chicken biscuits.
Lauren Wilkinson is a senior Media & Journalism major, specializing in Editing &
Graphic Design with a minor in Women’s and Gender Studies minor. She grew up in the little town of Oxford, NC and transferred to UNC as a sophomore. Lauren’s loves in life are attacking puppies that aren’t hers, wearing mascara everyday (even if it’s unnecessary), singing very badly while she’s driving and painting when she gets a chance.
Jacob Yankey is a Junior Biochemistry major from Wilmington, NC. He hopes to attend graduate school for pharmaceutical science, to pursue an MFA in creative writing, or to become a trophy husband.
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fall 2018
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
tara boldrin
wyatt mcnamara
bainbridge diaz heniham meadows patel watson
busbice capozzi gee qua rutledge scannell
brezenski clouser farasi lesnewski patel wilkinson yankey
